Revision as of 02:46, 3 March 2012

Third-party plugins give you more tools to work with your genealogy data in Gramps. This page lists plugins written by users and developers to work with the Gramps 3.3 version. These plugins may not be officially part of Gramps. Feature requests and bugs with these plugins should be directed to the contact information below. Plugins for previous versions of Gramps can be found on the 3.2 Addons page.

Installing Addons in Gramps

Gramps 3.3 introduced a new system for downloading and uploading Addons. Now you can have Gramps manage the process of checking and downloading updates.

To configure Gramps for Addons:

Start Gramps

Select Menu Edit -> Preferences...

Go to the General tab

Change "Check for updates" so when you start Gramps, it checks for updated Addons:

Never - never checks for updates when you start Gramps

Once a month - checks for updates when you start Gramps once a month

Once a week - checks for updates when you start Gramps once a week

Once a day - checks for updates when you start Gramps once a day

Always - checks for updates whenever you start Gramps

Change "What to check" so when you check for updates, it checks for:

Updated addons only - does not check for new addons

New addons only - does not check for updated addons

New and updated addons - checks for all new and updated addons

Change "Do not ask about previously notified addons":

Check it so that new/updated addons are only asked about once; afterwards it doesn't show them to you

Uncheck it so that new/updated addons are always shown to you

You can also use the older method of installing Addons. This can still be useful, for example, if someone sends you an addon.

To install a Gramps Addon through the older interface:

Start Gramps

Select Menu Help -> Plugin Manager

Select the tab Install Addons

To make sure the addon list is up to date, click on the Refresh Addon List button.

Select the addon to install from the list

Click on the Install Addon button.

For some addons, you may need to restart Gramps

You can also install a single Addon file manually:

Click on a download link from the list of Addons below.

Open the .ZIP or .gz file and save the contents to your GRAMPS User Directory, in the gramps33/plugins folder

For some addons, you may need to restart Gramps

The Plugin Status window will show you which plugins failed to load, double click on such an entry shows you the error. You can email this error to the plugin contact.

Addon List

Addons now are listed inside of Gramps through the interface described above.